The AdminCP setting to "Automatically embed links" applies to every platform that is supported, and while I want to be able to allow embedding of YouTube videos etc I want to DISABLE Twitter links specifically. There appears to be no sub-setting to choose which platforms you can allow embedding on - it would be good to have support for this.

There are multiple reasons I want to disable Twitter specifically:

• Embedded tweets take ages to appear on page load, making for a crummy UX for my users
• Distracts from community content, which is not helpful when Twitter etc are platforms that forums constantly have to compete with for attention - if people really want to see what a tweet says, they should just click the link
• Twitter going the way of the dodo generally and I really don't want to support it

In a perfect world, would be good to have a sub-setting in AdminCP where we can pick and choose which links automatically embed and which ones we can disable... but in the short-term there should just be a mod/hack to allow disabling of Twitter embeds and auto-embedding of everything else. 🙂 

41 minutes ago, Dreadknux said:

mod

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

 

 

 

Thanks for this, looks great - would this allow me to let users embed content from platforms I choose (like YouTube) while disabling the same for others (like Twitter)? It’s not super clear on the marketplace page

1 minute ago, Dreadknux said:

It’s not super clear on the marketplace page

First couple of lines:

Anyway...yes, it provides you with the ability to

2 minutes ago, Dreadknux said:

allow me to let users embed content from platforms I choose (like YouTube) while disabling the same for others (like Twitter)?

 

Thanks - I’ll look into it as a short term solution. Appreciate it!

I think this should be a feature in the next version of IPS in the long term though so I’ll keep the topic open 🙂

Hi guys

Wanted to prioritise this request again given recent events regarding Twitter and the actions of its owner. Many large-scale online communities (including on forums and on Reddit) are considering outright bans of on-site Twitter links and I’m still consulting on this direction, but in the meantime I really think it would be prudent for a toggle per-platform as to whether links are converted into embeds or not.

At the moment my feeling is I would like to just allow for YouTube video embeds by pasting a link, but prevent the same for Twitter.